The first day of the national funeral passed like this, and Zhu Youzhen returned to his Qinqin Palace and rested for a night.

Early the next morning, Cao Huachun and Lu Wenzhao took people out of the palace, and Zhu Youzhen also went to the palace with a few feasts, and continued to receive hundreds of officials who came to mourn every day.

Time passed slowly, and this boring and stable day made the three days pass quickly.

Three days after the national funeral, the officials no longer wore plain clothes, but changed into regular clothes.

Dress, also known as dress, is a kind of mourning dress that relatives wear according to the relationship with the deceased after the state funeral.

After the officials put on their robes, they continued to the halls of several feasts to mourn and hang their spirits, and this process needed to continue until the emperor was buried.

The wearing of the uniform is also elegant, and it takes twenty-seven days to take it off, and if you don't wear the uniform according to the regulations, then you are likely to face the crime of killing your head.

Zhu Youzhen is still dressed in plain clothes, carrying tables and chairs and sitting at the door of several banquets, every day is pastries and tea, occasionally changing fruits and ice drinks.

The government and the opposition seem to be calm, but in fact it is just a danger hidden underwater.

Zhu Youzhen knew that after the national funeral, the officials would definitely argue about the death of his cheap father Zhu Changluo.

Even if this matter has nothing to do with most of the civil servants, as long as the officials involved in the "Red Pill Case" are exiled, they will be exiled and exiled.

But all this has nothing to do with him now, what he needs to do is to behave well every day when the six departments, six departments, cabinet ministers and Zhu Youxiao come, and then keep filial piety honestly.

In the past three days, Lu Wenzhao and the others have not handed over to him the account books of the imperial horse eunuchs, corrupt eunuchs, various grasslands, imperial stores, and goods inventory.

He wasn't in a hurry, just because he knew that the longer this ledger came out, the more people the Imperial Horse Supervisor would be involved in.

"It's good to have more, more money, and you can have more money to ...... the house."

Zhu Youzhen smiled and muttered in his heart, and by the way, he stayed up until the fourth day of the national funeral.

However, on this day, there were a lot of officials who came to mourn, and he also asked curiously to the eunuch of the Miaoqin Palace next to him:

"What's wrong today, why are there so many officials who came to bow down?"

When the eunuch heard this, he hurriedly bowed slightly and responded: "Your Highness, I think it's a local official from outside the country who has returned to Beijing." ”

"According to the etiquette system, after receiving the obituary of the state funeral, local officials who are appointed abroad must also wear plain clothes, black gauze hats, black horn belts, and bow four times."

"After they read the edict, they had to cry once, and then kowtow four times, and after three days, they had to change into their clothes, and every morning they had to light three sticks of incense, and then they had to cry, and it would be over after three days."

"Really?" Zhu Youzhen was speechless, and was very uncomfortable with the cumbersome etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty.

He continued to ask the eunuch: "During this state funeral, apart from the busy officials and the imperial court, are there any taboos among the people?" ”

"Naturally, there is." The eunuch saluted and responded: "First of all, there can be no festive activities among the people, gambling on pai gow, looking for flowers and willows, and playing in autumn are all impossible, and even the clothes can't be too fancy." ”

"If it is seen by the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, it will be preached and fined some money."

"In addition, officials and ordinary people are not allowed to marry their daughters during the state funeral, and people are not allowed to drink alcohol and eat meat, so they can only eat vegetarian food."

"All sacrificial ceremonies will be suspended until a hundred days have passed."

"In addition, the Tianxia Temple will receive an edict to ring 30,000 bells and prohibit slaughter for 49 days."

"It's so troublesome...... Zhu Youzhen was still smacking his tongue a second ago, but he couldn't help laughing at himself for a second.

It's just that he has asked people to make meat dishes for him every day in the past few days, and if he thinks about it, I'm afraid that ordinary people are also secretly eating meat at home.

When he thought about it, he didn't feel guilty anymore.

He continued to receive hundreds of officials in several banquet halls, and the days passed like this, and soon it was the seventh day of the state funeral, and on this day a major event happened in the imperial court.

First of all, Zhu Youxiao replaced some of the six Shangshu and cabinet ministers, and secondly, the Yellow River weighed water, and found that the water was turbid and heavy sand, and there might be a risk of local breaches or drought in the coming year.

For the latter, the experienced Fang Congzhe immediately sent officials from Ganshan, Henan, and Nanzhili to inspect.

Due to the diversion of the Yellow River, in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the Yellow River did not flow into the Bohai Sea, but migrated southward, seizing the course of the Huai River and flowing into the East China Sea.

As a result, there are many floods in the south, and there are often famines after floods.

However, these things have nothing to do with Zhu Youzhen at the moment, the only thing related to him is that on the sixth day after Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun, and Lu Wenzhao left the capital, Lu Wenzhao took the lead in returning to the imperial city and brought the account book of the imperial horse supervisor.

"Your Highness, the lowly duty is not dishonoring the mission, and in the process of raiding the house, the lowly has always been the brother under the supervisor, and all the silver taels, fields, and mansions are in the account books."

At dusk, Lu Wenzhao came to the palace with the account book, and Zhu Youzhen handed over the account book as soon as he had dinner.

Wiping his mouth, Zhu Youzhen took the account book, opened it to check, and said absent-mindedly at the same time:

"How many criminals have been arrested......"

"A total of one hundred and twenty-seven, and the silver taels of greedy ink are 874,723 taels and 346 yuan." Lu Wenzhao replied honestly.

"How much?" Zhu Youzhen was taken aback, he really didn't expect the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison to be so bold.

"874,723 taels and 346 yuan, in addition to 64,971 acres of pasture and 25,322 acres of cultivated land." Lu Wenzhao lowered his head in response, and then continued:

"These eunuchs also bought a lot of houses for themselves, and some of them also got a lot of acres and mansions in their hometowns, and their subordinates traced them for three days before they found out."

"There are 372 of those houses, 145 in Beijing, and 227 outside Beijing, and it is estimated that there will be more than 100,000 taels after they are sold."

"That is to say, if everything adds up, I'm afraid there are millions of taels?" Zhu Youzhen flipped through the account book, feeling irritable.

After a few seconds he spoke: "If an animal doesn't get fat just by eating, it has roundworms in its stomach." ”

"If the people are industrious and not rich, it is because they have too many bloodsucking worms."

"Lu Wenzhao, did you say that what I said was right?"

"Yes, what Your Highness said is very true!" Lu Wenzhao nodded hurriedly, while Zhu Youzhen put down the ledger and said:

"Haven't you counted the pastures and cultivated land of the Imperial Horse Warden?"

"That might take some time." Lu Wenzhao said cautiously:

"After all, it takes a lot of time to measure the fields, pastures, and Huangzhuang, but the Huangdian has already counted them."

As he spoke, he took out another account book from his bosom, presented it with both hands, and said, "Please look at ......."